What I always notice is that he never actually says that the reason he's somehow "not" an addict anymore has anything to do with Passages. It seems very carefully worded to imply that there's some kind of connection, even while he never outright says so. Just that he happens to have been some kind of addict, and that Passages happens to be some kind of a rehab facility, two separate facts that for some unknown reason we're supposed to think of as being related..!  What an endorsement..
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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